Carlotta LaNier grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas in the 1940s. As a child, she learned the rules around town. Sit in the back of the bus not the front. At the Greyhound station, sit in the waiting ...

In 1957, Carlotta Walls LaNier felt one emotion during the days leading up to her first day at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas: excitement. It was a brief three years after the historic ...

In 1957, the "Little Rock Nine" enrolled in racially segregated Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. Carlotta Walls LaNier was the... 'A Mighty Long Way' From Little Rock In 1957, the "Little ...

But when Carlotta Walls LaNier dared to enroll at an elite white high school in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957, she and her eight black classmates extended a fight against intolerance that drew the nation ...

Briar Cliff University President Beverly Wharton tried to put herself in Carlotta Walls' shoes as she read "A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School" - the memoir of ...

Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine, shares her memories, the necessity for a young readers’ adaption of her memoir, and more. In 1957, Carlotta Walls LaNier felt one ...